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Care to qualify that? I'm not following this at all, but I can't see anything particularly obvious that's a 'train wreck'. They have a game. It's playable, if
by shadowmint 9y ago
Care to qualify that?
I'm not following this at all, but I can't see anything particularly obvious that's a 'train wreck'.
They have a game. It's playable, if not particularly good. Some people are playing it (or something? Someone is posting gameplay videos anyway).
I have zero investment in it so I don't really get it; I see a lot of unhappy people making :( faces.
Games take time and money to make. They're making it. It's not done yet. They're keeping in touch with people and releasing regular updates.
I mean, what do you want them to do? Not make it? Make it faster? Communicate more? Communicate differently?
That's really good compared to some crowd funding people... isn't it?
...? Where's the drama?
- strathmeyer 9y agoThe problem comes with advertising and selling products that they haven't made yet.
- quakenul 9y agoThe drama basically arises from where common people are a good source of funds but actually terrible investors, giving personal money by impulse, usually without being equipped with the industry insight to evaluate the risks, or fully accepting there are risks because they are too emotionally invested in the product.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoMaybe so, but it's probably important not to enact regulations preventing people from doing this. Otherwise we'll lose all the things that Kickstarter et al. helped create. Anyone who's loved the game Undertale will tell you that was a fine use of their funds. But games like that wouldn't be possible without unsophisticated investors throwing their money at it in small quantities.
- wcummings 9y agoThere's a lot of stuff on Kickstarter that looks a lot like fraud, I think people see this as part of a trend. You don't have to ban it, just give the "investors" more recourse.